Water Justice News: SDGs

June 13, 2014 – 3:10pm Nearly 300 organizations sent a letter today demanding that the human right to water and sanitation be included in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The right was excluded from the most recent version of the SDG text t…

June 12, 2014 – 10:22am Despite the United Nations General Assembly recognizing the human right to water and sanitation in July 2010, these rights have been omitted in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) framework document. The SDGs are highly sign…

Photo: Karunananthan presents to the Open Working Group at the UN, May 7, 2014.
CBC reports, “Looking toward 2015, there is the question of whether Canada will wield any influence on the [global] development agenda. In 2012, U…

Photo: Karunananthan meets with Hungarian Ambassador Csaba Korosi, a co-chair of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals.
On May 7, Blue Planet Project campaigner Meera Karunananthan addressed an Informal Meeti…